Patrícia Heilberg
Director of Strategy & Operations @ 99
About
Executive with 13+ years of experience leading strategy and operations in large-scale, multi-sided marketplace businesses across Latin America. I focus on building operating systems that enable disciplined scale, capital-efficient growth and long-term competitive advantage. My experience includes end-to-end marketplace leadership with significant P&L responsibility, structuring expansion frameworks, incentive governance and cross-functional operating models that align product, lifecycle strategy and resource allocation at scale. Across both 0→1 environments and complex multi-million-user platforms, I have redesigned operating structures to support sustainable growth, liquidity and profitability in dynamic markets. My background in strategy consulting, private equity exposure and financial markets informs a leadership approach grounded in analytical rigor, governance discipline and structural thinking. I am motivated by environments where ambiguity must be transformed into clarity, systems scale with discipline, and leadership drives meaningful transformation.
Brazil
Greater São Paulo Area
Computer Software
Operations Management, Change Management, KPIs & Metrics Design, Data-Driven Decision Making, Ecosystem Strategy, Growth Strategy, Executive Leadership, General Management, Strategy & Operations, P&L Management, Marketplace Strategy, Platform Business Models, Scaling Operations, Organizational Leadership, Cross-Functional Leadership, Stakeholder Management, Direção executiva, Field Operations, Social Impact, Gestão de ativos
Experience

Director of Strategy & Operations
São Paulo, Brazil
Strategic leadership across DiDi’s core marketplace business, combining scale, operational excellence and innovation. • Led strategy, operations and innovation agendas across the marketplace, with accountability for scale, efficiency and long-term value creation. Launch & Expansion (0→1) • Built and institutionalized a structured city-launch playbook adopted across dozens of markets. • Led a multifunctional team of 35+ across operations, analytics and local execution. • Improved time-to-launch, early liquidity and unit economics. Marketplace Strategy & Core Operations (1→100+) • Led the company’s largest business unit (~80% of total P&L). • Designed ROI-driven incentive governance and resource allocation frameworks. • Rebuilt operating rhythms, performance diagnostics and accountability across 4W and 2W. • Led a 20-person strategy organization focused on scale, efficiency and performance management. Driver Lab (Innovation & Ecosystem Strategy) • Designed and scaled a driver ecosystem integrating lifecycle strategy, segmentation, incentives and product experimentation. • Increased retention, engagement and marketplace liquidity through interconnected solutions rather than isolated initiatives. • Balanced innovation velocity with operational and economic discipline.

Senior Product Manager, Business Development (LatAm)
São Paulo, Brasil
Led the conception, build and launch of Station by WeWork, a 0→1 marketplace and ERP platform created to expand WeWork’s presence through third-party coworking operators in Latin America. • Owned end-to-end product strategy from concept definition to market launch. • Designed the business model, value proposition and partner economics for a B2B marketplace platform. • Led cross-functional teams across product, engineering, design, operations and legal. • Defined go-to-market strategy, onboarding flows and operational model for launch. • Translated corporate growth objectives into a tangible product and platform strategy under high uncertainty. Station by WeWork was successfully launched as a new strategic growth initiative, establishing the foundation for an asset-light expansion model through a partner ecosystem.

Senior Regional Manager
Sao Paulo
• Simultaneously led two strategic verticals in Brazil e LatAm (Safety and Risk & Payments) • Responsible for building a +10-strong team of high-performing managers and individual contributors (program managers and data analysts/scientists), with team satisfaction of >90% • Lead PMO for LatAm's Safety priorities, including 30+ projects across the region at any given time, with positive impact on safety sentiment and safety incidents • Responsible for liaising with Regional Safety Managers globally and headquarters to share/adopt best practices, as well as participating to Uber's Global Safety Advisory Board • Part of LatAm Women Leaders and sponsor for technological Innovation, Women Safety and Anti-Discrimination initiatives • Implemented a new framework for loss control, leading millions of dollars in annualized savings • Designed and successfully implemented product solutions and operations and support flows such as women rider preferred solution, cash-only options for drivers, rider ID verifications, machine learnings and much more. • Coordination of sanitary technological and operational cross-functional solutions for COVID risk prevention.

Regional Operations Manager – Safety & Fraud | LatAm
São Paulo, Brasil
• Managed Safety and Fraud Operations across Latin America, supporting risk mitigation and incident prevention initiatives. • Partnered with global teams to deploy standardized safety and fraud tools across multiple markets. • Supported regional execution, performance monitoring and operational improvements.

Consultant
São Paulo, Brasil
• Project management and innovation, acting on strategic planning and revenue, costs and expenses leverages on several economic sectors on Brazil's largest corporations, such as: VALE, XP Investimentos, Banco PAN, Portobello, VIVARA, SKY and Bemol. • FALCONI CAPITAL creation. • Selected for Career Acceleration Process as good performance results

Hedge Fund
New York, USA
• Supported fund screening and due diligence processes for a fund-of-funds investment strategy. • Analyzed fund strategies, fee structures, performance metrics and risk profiles. • Maintained and structured internal databases with information on asset managers and funds. • Supported investment team preparation for meetings with fund managers and partners. • Gained exposure to portfolio construction, manager selection and institutional investment processes.

Microcredit
Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Supported field operations and credit processes within a microfinance model focused on women entrepreneurs. • Conducted on-the-ground observations of loan origination, repayment cycles and community-based risk management. • Analyzed credit use cases and their impact on household income generation and financial inclusion. • Gained exposure to social finance models balancing financial sustainability and social impact.
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